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Ovation Communications has chosen DSET's ILEC in a box suite of electronic bonding solutions to connect with Ameritech and US West. Ovation Communications, Inc., a facilities based competitive local phone service provider, operates in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

On March 31, 1999, McLeodUSA registered ("McLeodUSA") acquired Ovation Communications, Inc. a private held Delaware Corporation, through the merger of Ovation with and into Bravo Acquisition Corporation, a newly formed Delaware corporation and fully owned subsidiary of McLeodUSA. The Merger occurred pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 7, 1999, among McLeodUSA, Bravo Acquisition Corporation, Ovation and several stockholders of Ovation.

As especially for Ovation, ILEC in a Box includes DSET's LSR Order Gateway and Local Service Order Administration System, as well as E911, LIDB, and CNAM Gateways. Electronic interconnection between Ovation and both Ameritech and US West with the LSR Order Gateway will help the change of customers who switch to Ovation as their local service provider from Ameritech or US West. By automating the exchange of data between competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), the LSR Order Gateway greatly increases the way of changing on service for new CLEC customers.

Combining with regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) electronically is key to the success of CLECs and the spirit of competition. The product will eliminate the time consuming manual entry of orders for our business customers. Automating the customer order process will increase up response time by days if not weeks.

Ovation offers various services like basic dial tone local and long distance telephone service, PBX and Centrex-based services, voice mail, private line special access, and integrated services digital network (ISDN) services. The company is merging with McLeodUSA to form the country's first regional "Super CLEC" serving the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states.

The LSOA (Local Service Order Administration) Gateway supports sending messages to the regional Number Portability Administration Centers (NPACs) established to make ensure that local telephone numbers remain the same when individual consumers or businesses change service providers.

The E911 Gateway supports the transfer of precise customer data that police, fire departments, and ambulance services need to respond to emergency calls.

The LIDB and CNAM Gateways facilitate transactions with service bureaus to provide support for calling-card calls, collect calls, and calls billed to third numbers.

Bill McHale, DSET's president and chief executive officer is all praise for the CLECS and he thinks that its going to be the latest revolution. Firm had major successes with CLECs purchasing our electronic-bonding solutions for interconnection with Bell Atlantic, in the Bell Atlantic North and South regions because of large scale production and distribution. Now, the horizon is much broader and sky is the limit. Firm has proven that ILEC in a Box offers CLECs the best way to connect with technology and trading partners in any area of the country.

City:	Calumet City
State:	Illinois
Zip Code:	60409
County:	Cook
County Population:	5303683
Time Zone:	Central

Type:	Landline
Date of registration:	22/07/1999
Time:	02/15/2012 12:52:59 PM
Rate Center:	Calumet Cy
Switch CLLI:	CHCGILWUDS0
OCN:	16980